The Untold Truth Of Barry Manilow

Publish date: 2024-03-23

Barry Manilow has grown very rich and very famous performing show-stopping and emotionally packed songs of love gained and love lost, the kind one would hear in a big, sweeping Broadway musical. His songs are very theatrical, in other words, and in 2019, Manilow announced that his stab at a stage musical had made it to the big time — a New York run — after many years of attempts.

According to The New York Times, Manilow composed the music for Harmony, while Bruce Sussman, with whom he's written more than 200 songs, tackled the lyrics and script for the project about the Comedian Harmonists, a six-member singing group who gained popularity in 1920 Germany, just before the rise of Hitler and Nazism. Despite the involvement of a pop legend, Harmony's development has been rocky. It was staged for the first time in 1997 in California, with subsequent runs in Philadelphia and Atlanta, while an announced Broadway run was cancelled in 2003 due to financing issues. In 2019, Manilow announced during a performance of his Broadway revue, Manilow Broadway, that Harmony would hit New York in 2020, staged at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. However, it was soon after delayed to 2021, owing to the director's battle with appendicitis.

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